Word: skewbald
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...Small in the Saddle. On Dartmoor in England, TV Cowpoke Ross Salmon went for an off-camera canter on his cattle ranch, got tossed off by his skewbald mare Faithful, sent Faithful for help when he found he was too badly shaken up to remount, shivered all night after Faithful moseyed off in the wrong direction, gloomily told well-wishers: "I cannot think of anything more harmful for an experienced cowboy than to admit falling off his horse. I am afraid the kiddies will have finished with...
...skewbald horse is splotched with white and one of several shades of brown; a piebald is black and white...
...piebald." Replied Clem Attlee: "Sir Winston has always been a bit of a chameleon, a funny little animal that changes color. He began as a Conservative, was a Liberal for 18 years, then an Independent and ... a Conservative again. I don't know whether that makes him piebald, skewbald* or what." Tempers Down, Issues Blurred. Piebald, skewbald or spavined, Britain's first national campaign in 3½ years loped toward this week's Election Day with small enthusiasm. The apathy of the public was matched by wordy routineness on the platform...
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